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<h2><a name='windowsinstaller'>Using the Windows installer</a></h2>
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A pre-compiled version of MRtrix is available for Windows, provided and 
maintained by Ben Jeurissen. The installer can be found on the <a 
href="http://www.nitrc.org/projects/mrtrix/">NITRC website</a>, under the name 
<kbd>mrtrix-0.2.X-win32.exe</kbd>. Simply download and execute the file, then 
follow the on-screen instructions.
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Note that this version is provided for convenience only, and there is no active 
development of MRtrix under Microsoft Windows. If you experience problems that 
are specific to this version, it is unlikely that we will be able to help.
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If you do decide to use the Windows version, you may find it helpful to use a 
more Unix-like command interpreter than that provided by Microsoft. One decent 
such alternative is <a href="http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys">MSYS</a>, although 
other good choices no doubt exist.

<h2><a name='fromsource'>Building from source</a></h2>
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MRtrix can be built from source on Microsoft Windows using the <a 
href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW compiler</a>, although it is a much more
challenging task than on Unix systems due primarily to the difficulty of
finding appropriate versions of the dependencies. While we do not provide
precise instructions for doing this here, the following information may prove 
helpful for users who wish to do so.
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The following tools are required for the compilation process, and pre-compiled 
Windows versions are available for download:

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<li><b>MinGW:</b>
<a href="http://www.mingw.org/">
http://www.mingw.org/
</a></li>
<li><b>Python 2.6:</b>
<a href="http://www.python.org/getit/windows/">
http://www.python.org/getit/windows/
</a></li>
</ul>

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Pre-compiled versions of the dependencies are also available for download:

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<li><b>GTK:</b>
<a href="http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html">
http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html
</a></li>
<li><b>gtkmm:</b>
<a href="http://www.gtkmm.org/en/download.html">
http://www.gtkmm.org/en/download.html
</a></li>
<li><b>GtkGLExt:</b>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkglext/files/gtkglext/1.0.6/">
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkglext/files/gtkglext/1.0.6/
</a></li>
<li><b>GSL:</b>
<a href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gsl.htm">
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gsl.htm
</a></li>
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The compilation process involves the same steps as described in the <a 
href="unix.html#compile">Unix installation instructions</a>.

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Donald Tournier<br>
MRtrix version #VERSION#<br>
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